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"One key to good fish breeding is providing fish with the right food. That means getting the right-sized food. As fish larvae grow, so does the optimum size of their food. That’s a problem for certain species bred in fisheries. Fish raised on live feed face a gap in their feed size as larvae: at a certain stage, the plankton they eat become too small for maximum growth. This “food size gap” can affect the quality and value of fish raised for consumption. But researchers from Japan appear to have one solution: “supersizing” plankton with beams of heavy ions. Researchers from the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science generated high-powered beams of carbon and argon ions in the hopes of producing size-boosting mutations in rotifers, a phylum of plankton commonly fed to fish larvae. The tremendous amounts of energy carried by these beams, a couple hundred thousand times the amount a human might receive during a routine CT scan, was enough to alter the DNA in rotifer cells..."
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- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Engineering
- Health, Medicine and Nursing
- Material Type:
- Diagram/Illustration
- Reading
- Provider:
- Research Square
- Provider Set:
- Video Bytes
- Date Added:
- 11/16/2022
